Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset;
2.
the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event;
- Example: "he basked in the afterglow of his victory"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
After-glow \Aft"er-glow\, n.
A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
afterglow
n 1: a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset
2: the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event; "he basked
in the afterglow of his victory"